Tempski's lorry was stopped and searched on arrival at King George Dock on August 31, 2014, and was found to contain two "sanitary cabins" bound for a company in Stockton-on-Tees.

It had been "expertly packed by smugglers", with the cabins' insides stripped and their doors facing the walls of the trailer, but officers drilled through the cabins to find them filled with boxes of cigarettes.